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For the second year in a row, a Skellefteå player will be awarded the honorary Salming Trophy.
Last year it was Jonathan Pudas who received it, and this year 19-year-old Axel Sandin-Pellikka is awarded the prize.
Börje Salmings honorary award is awarded to the main season’s best Swedish-born defender in either the SHL or the SDHL’s main series, and has been awarded since the 2008/09 season. After the hockey legend’s passing in November 2022, the prize has been awarded in his memory.
– I am convinced that Börje appreciates the choice of Axel, says the brother Stig Salming in a press release, which, together with the Ice Hockey Journalists’ Comrades Association, awards the award.
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Axel Sandin-Pellikka has during the season been responsible for ten goals and eight assists in 39 games in the SHL, and was one of the Junior crowns’ top players during the JVM.
The 19-year-old was selected in the first round during last summer’s draft, as number 17 by the Detroit Red Wings.
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